Latest articles by Matt Mills
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 23 2025
Electric Callboy, Blackbraid, Malevolence and many others have devastated our eardrums with new tunes this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.
The five least metal Metallica songs
Not even having the word ‘metal’ in their name could stop the Four Horsemen from adventuring outside of their genre
Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams die in San Diego plane crash
Shapiro and Williams died in a crash that injured eight people on the ground and is presumed to have killed six overall
Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums
Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap
Metallica announce stacked UK and Europe tour with Gojira, Knocked Loose and more
The biggest band in metal will be supported by a mammoth lineup when they hit Europe in summer 2026
A Judas Priest documentary co-directed by Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello is in the works
The Brummie stars have announced The Ballad Of Judas Priest – produced by Iron Maiden, Rush and ZZ Top collaborators Banger Films – but kept tight-lipped regarding a release date
Former Megadeth guitarist says Dave Mustaine damaged his career by calling him a “liar”
Chris Poland, who performed on Megadeth’s first two albums, likens being the subject of Mustaine’s ire to dragging around a “50-pound ball”
Joey Jordison’s former death metal band Sinsaenum are back, will release new album in tribute to late Slipknot drummer
Sinsaenum – also featuring members of Kreator, Mayhem and others – will continue with Jordison’s old drum tech behind the kit
Wendy Dio remembers visiting Motörhead’s Lemmy “two hours before he died”
The widow of Ronnie James Dio reveals that she was one of the last people to see Lemmy before he passed away in 2015
Watch live footage of Limp Bizkit playing an unreleased song in 1997
The track, called Breaking My Back or Strain by fans, was played at shows in the Three Dollar Bill Y’all era but never officially came out
Listen to the final song by UK metalcore crusaders Ithaca
Listen to the final song by UK metalcore crusaders Ithaca
Watch Trivium cover Steve’s Lava Chicken from the Minecraft Movie, because memes have ruined everyone’s brains
The greatest use of a seven-string guitar in metal history
Every Paradise Lost album ranked from worst to best
Paradise Lost have turned sadness into several different sonic forms. Here they are in reverse-order of quality.
Iron Maiden urge fans to keep their phones in their pockets during Run For Your Lives tour
Iron Maiden urge fans to keep their phones in their pockets during upcoming Run For Your Lives tour
King Diamond offers update on first album since 2007
King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year
Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it
“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous
Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell explains how he ended up on the soundtrack to horror blockbuster Sinners
Alice In Chains’ guitarist/vocalist explains how a phone call from Metallica’s drummer got him involved with one of the most successful films of the year
The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind Megadeth stint
King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”
Judas Priest are one of the only veteran metal bands to not be playing Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert this summer. Rob Halford explains why.
"I had an idea for an album about people bottling Jesus's vomit."
Rivers Of Nihil might be modern prog metal masters, but that doesn't mean they sign from the same hymn sheet as everyone else
Watch this death metal band marry two of their fans onstage during a concert
Symphonic/death metal maximalists Fleshgod Apocalypse paused a show on their current North American tour to officiate a wedding
Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil wants to put out final recordings featuring Chris Cornell
The band and the estate of late frontman Cornell have had legal disputes over the potential release of posthumous music
